GeForce 945A vs Radeon E8860

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce 945A and Radeon E8860. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between GeForce 945A and Radeon E8860. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
GeForce 945A
Radeon E8860

Main Specs

  GeForce 945A Radeon E8860
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 37 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 4x mini-DisplayPort
 
  • Radeon E8860 has 12% more power consumption, than GeForce 945A.
  • GeForce 945A is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Radeon E8860 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon E8860 has 1 GB more memory, than GeForce 945A.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce 945A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Radeon E8860 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 945A is 497 MHz higher, than Radeon E8860.
  • GeForce 945A and Radeon E8860 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 945A is 512 MHz higher, than Radeon E8860.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 7−8
ultra / 1080p 5−6 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 20−22 18−20
medium / 1080p 10−12 9−10
The average gaming FPS of GeForce 945A in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 10% more, than Radeon E8860.

Full Specs

  GeForce 945A Radeon E8860
Architecture Maxwell GCN 1.0
Code name GM108 Venus
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 13 March 2015 25 January 2014
Pipelines 384 640
Core clock speed 1072 MHz 575 MHz
Boost Clock 1189 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 28.54 25.00
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB/s 72 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 1.2.131
CUDA 5.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 108 Mh/s 48 Mh/s